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New Data Reveals Potential Malaria Treatment Targets

An international team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators today released data detailing the effectiveness of nearly 310,000 chemicals…

Health & Medicine

Malaria control to overcome disease’s spread as climate warms

So concludes a team of scientists including two University of Florida researchers in a paper set to appear May 20 in the journal Nature.Scientists and public…

Life & Chemistry

Picturing infertility – potential to distinguish fertile and infertile human sperm cells – Innovations Report

“Current influenza vaccines are effective against only a narrow range of influenza virus strains. It is for this reason that new vaccines must be generated and…

Life & Chemistry

High Rates of Multiple Fungal Strains Uncovered

“Koch's postulates are criteria establishing a causal relationship between a microbe and a disease that lead to the assumption that the disease is caused by a…

Studies and Analyses

Early Detection of Depression in Preschoolers: Key Insights

In the new Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, child psychiatrist/researcher Joan Luby from…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Second Tropical Storm Form Near the Horn of Africa

At 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT) on May 19, Tropical Storm 02A had maximum sustained winds near 39 mph, with higher gusts. It was located in the Arabian Sea (part of…

Earth Sciences

Cyclone Laila Approaches India: Latest Satellite Imagery Insights

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiomenter or MODIS instrument that flies aboard Aqua captured Laila in an image at 08:10 UTC (4:10 a.m. EDT). At that…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Aqua satellite sees sunglint on Gulf oil slick

The visible image showed three bright areas of sunglint within the area of the gray-beige colored spill. Sunglint is a mirror-like reflection of the sun off…

Health & Medicine

OU WATER Center: Innovative Solutions for Clean Water Access

At the University of Oklahoma WATER Center, researchers are working to provide solutions in developing countries where clean, safe water is nonexistent. …

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish in Human Studies: UCSD Researcher’s New Discovery

Michael E. Baker, PhD, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has discovered that zebrafish – an important animal model in…

Studies and Analyses

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Enhances Drug Design Innovation

The research, which was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society, contributes to the growing attention given toward the shape-shifting…

Medical Engineering

Enhanced Real-Time Monitoring for Siemens Imaging Systems

Whether detecting cancer, heart or brain imaging, renal exams or bone scans, physicians must be able to rely on their PET-CT or SPECT-CT scanners. Any system…

Life & Chemistry

Low-Cost, Ultra-Fast DNA Sequencing Transforms Diagnostics

Sequencing DNA could get a lot faster and cheaper – and thus closer to routine use in clinical diagnostics – thanks to a new method developed by a research…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Resistant Wheat Strengthens Cell Walls Against Hessian Flies

Christie Williams, a research scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and a Purdue University associate professor of…

Studies and Analyses

Racial Disparities in Family-Centered Care for Special Needs Kids

Components of family-centered care include adequate time spent with the patient, attentive listening, care that is sensitive to the family's values and…

Health & Medicine

Muscle loss in elderly linked to blood vessels' failure to dilate

Why do people become physically weaker as they age? And is there any way to slow, stop, or even reverse this process, breaking the link between increasing age…

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